>My friend has dual monitors with different resolutions going under Windows
>2000 on the Matrox 450.
Frank have you actually checked out your friends system to see if your
friend actually is running the two monitors under different resolutions as
opposed to thinking he is. I think you ought to before making the strong
statements that you have about the statements in the review being "false."
Since what the review claims as been experienced by other Win2k as well as
Win98 users with respect to not only Matrox cards but other cards as well,
it just might be the case that the statements are true and your friend is
mistaken in what they thought they actually were able to do with their dual
monitors - even with he Matrox 450 card. That the manufacturer's specs may
say that a card can do such and such does not necessarily mean that it will
do it with all systems, OS. or platforms. Indeed, the Matrox web site, as a
footnote to its specifications the 450 dualhead display capabilities, says,
"* The level of DualHead capability is determined by the operating system."
I cannot say that the review statements are mistaken or that you are since I
do not own a Matrox 450 dual head card or use win2K in any flavor. I use
Matrox 400 dualhead card under Win 98.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Frank Paris
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 8:36 PM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Re: GeForce2 MX Graphics Card
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Maris V. Lidaka,
> Sr.
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 6:28 AM
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: Re: filmscanners: Re: GeForce2 MX Graphics Card
>
>
> There is a review of 3 dual-monitor video cards at
>
>
> I have just barely started reading it so I don't know how valuable it is.
>
> Maris
Here is a false statement in that review: "The final limitation deals with
the operating system Windows 2000 itself and not the dual display
technology. Windows 2000 has a limitation that prevents two separate
monitors running off the same card from running at different resolutions."
My friend has dual monitors with different resolutions going under Windows
2000 on the Matrox 450. Also there is this statement: "The one problem that
did arise from Matrox's lack of inclusion of a resolution selection utility
was that we could not set individual displays to different resolutions. This
could prove to be a problem in setups where the screen sizes are different.
This problem plauges all other dual display solutions while in Windows
2000." That also is false. There is indeed an interface for setting a
separate display resolution.
Frank Paris
marshalt@spiritone.com
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